Roger,

What Clojure version are you using? When I run your snippet with HEAD,
I get:

FAIL in clojure.lang.persistentlist$emptyl...@1 (blah2.clj:11)
test alias function
expected: (= 1 (do (alias (quote c) (quote coretest))))
  actual: (not (= 1 nil))

Which is presumably what you want to see.

On Jan 3, 9:28 am, Roger Gilliar <ro...@gilliar.de> wrote:
> > As I understand it, the Clojure reader expects to be able to resolve
> > namespace references as soon as it sees them. Since "alias" is a
> > function, the "c" alias doesn't exist until sometime after the reader
> > has already run.  I think you will encounter a similar problem with
> > the import macro.
>
> Ok,
>
> that makes sense somehow. Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Regards
>   Roger

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